Tim Johnson (senator)

Tim Johnson (28 December 1946-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-SD) from 3 January 1987 to 3 January 1997 (succeeding Tom Daschle and preceding John Thune) and a US Senator from 3 January 1997 to 3 January 2015 (succeeding Larry Pressler and preceding Mike Rounds).

Biography
Tim Johnson was born in Canton, South Dakota in 1946, and he worked as a lawyer before serving in the State House from 1979 to 1982, in the State Senate from 1983 to 1986, in the US House of Representatives from 1987 to 1997, and in the US Senate from 1997 to 2015. In 2002, he won 94% of the Oglala Sioux tribe's vote, and he went on to endorse Barack Obama in 2008. He chose not to seek re-election in 2014.